Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet
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This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic script at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.
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[edit] Indo-European languages
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Romani (in Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and former USSR)
- Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Romance languages
- Romanian (up to the 19th century, and a different form of Cyrillic in Moldova from 1940–89 exclusively; now Cyrillic is used in Transnistria officially and in the rest of the country in everyday communication by some groups of people; see Moldovan alphabet)
- Ladino in occasional Bulgarian Sephardic publications.
- Slavic languages
- Old Church Slavonic
- Church Slavonic
- Belarusian, now almost exclusively in Cyrillic, although there was a Roman version of the language in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Belarusian Roman script was called Łacinka
- Bosnian, (Bosnian Cyrillic was used in the Bosnian language until the late 18th century.)
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian
- Montenegrin
- Polish, (only for short period in Congress Poland era because required by Russian law)
- Russian
- Rusyn
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
[edit] Languages of the Caucasus
(This group is not assumed to comprise genetically related subgroups.)
[edit] Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Dungan (since 1953)
[edit] Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
[edit] Mongolic languages
[edit] Tungusic languages
[edit] Turkic languages
- Altay
- Azerbaijani/Azeri (1939–91, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1991 officially in Roman)
- Balkar
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Crimean Tatar (1938–91)
- Gagauz (1957-1990s, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1990s officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
- Kazakh
- Karachay
- Karakalpak (1940s–1990s)
- Karaim language (20-th century)
- Khakas
- Kumyk
- Kyrgyz
- Nogai
- Tatar (since 1939)
- Turkmen (1940–94 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1994 officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
- Tuvan
- Uyghur - Cyrillic (Uyghur Siril Yëziqi). Used along with Arabic (Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi), « New Script » (Uyghur Yëngi Yëziqi, Pinyin-based), and modern Latin (Uyghur Latin Yëziqi) alphabets.
- Uzbek (1941–98 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1998 Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script, which was prescribed as the future alphabet of Uzbek)
- Yakut
[edit] Uralic languages
- Samoyedic languages
- Uralic languages
- Karelian (until 1921 and 1937–1940)
- Khanty
- Mansi (since 1937 writing has not received distribution)
- Komi
- Komi-Zyrian (since 17th century, modern alphabet since 1930s)
- Komi-Permyak
- Mari (since 19th century)
- Mordvin languages
- Sami (in Russia, since 1980s)
- Udmurt
[edit] Eskimo-Aleut languages
[edit] Afro-Asiatic languages
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)
[edit] Other languages
- Ket
- Padonkaffsky jargon
- Nivkh
- Tlingit
- Yukaghir
- Russian sign language (uses the Cyrillic script via the Russian Manual Alphabet)
- Constructed languages
